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Since the adoption of the Model Code of Professional Responsibility in 1969 a number of amendments have been required due to decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States and lower courts relating to the provision of group legal services and the provision of additional legal services on a wide scale not only to indigents but also to persons of moderate means. Furthermore, recent decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States on the subject of the constitutionality of restrictive provisions in the Code relating to lawyer advertising have required a substantial revision of Canon 2 and of other portions of the present Model Code. These modifications in the Code are included in the present printing, up to and including the action taken by the House of Delegates in August of 1978. The Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility is mandated under the By-Laws of the American Bar Association (Article 30.7) to recommend appropriate amendments to or clarification of the Model Code. Additional changes are under consideration by the Committee with particular cognizance of recent Court decisions. #pdf
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